Mrs. Keebler's Blog

Hello Families!

We are excited to announce we are having a Buddy Classroom field trip. Montessori classrooms and lower elementary special education classrooms will be visiting The Henry Ford Museum on Friday, April 4th.

A few notes:

*All paperwork is coming home in your child’s folder today!

*All Kindergarten/1st graders will need an adult chaperone. 

*Students will come to school then ride the bus to the museum. All chaperones will meet us at the museum. 

*No siblings allowed. 

*All paperwork and money is Due on Friday, February 21st. 

(firm deadline– we need to give numbers to them and get a check before spring break and that takes a few weeks).

Star of the Week – Latifeh will continue as Star of the Week. Lena will begin on 2/3.

Field Trip – The upper elementary has planned a field trip for January 31st. It is a STEM Roller Skating trip. If you haven’t turned in your permission slip yet, please bring it on Monday. Chaperones are welcome, no siblings. Chaperones should check in at the office and meet in the cafeteria. We will be taking a bus.

Academics-

Unit 5 Week 3– Spelling – Inflectional endings -ed, ing, Grammar – Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences U5 W3 Spelling Practice Please help your child practice their spelling words each week. You don’t not have to turn in spelling homework, but they should be practicing to do well on their test each Friday.

Reading Logs – these will now be part of the report card grade. They should be completed neatly, with a title and author (proper capitalization). Don’t read the same book all week, and don’t repeat the same books week after week. Parent signature required.

Math – Module 3 Lesson 23, 24, 25. Module 3 study guide Wednesday, test Thursday. Here is the M3 Assessment Study Guide. M3 Assessment Study Guide Answers.

Science – Environments and survival

Social Studies – 5 Themes of Geography

i-Ready – Please continue to practice i-Ready everyday at home.

This week, the WIDA testing begins for all students who speak another language at home.

Star of the Week – Adam continues as star of the week. Latifeh will begin being star of the week on 1/20.

Reminder – No school on Monday, January 20th – Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Field Trip – The upper elementary has planned a field trip for January 31st. It is a STEM Roller Skating trip. Permission slip will be coming home this week. Chaperones are welcome, no siblings. We will be taking a bus.

Report cards went home Friday

Academics-

ELA – Unit 5 Week 2 – Spelling – Vowel -r Syllables, Grammar – Subordinating Conjunctions U5 W2 Spelling Practice Please help your child practice their spelling words each week. You don’t not have to turn in spelling homework, but they should be practicing to do well on their test each Friday.

Reading Logs – these will now be part of the report card grade. They should be completed neatly, with a title and author (proper capitalization). Don’t read the same book all week, and don’t repeat the same books week after week. Parent signature required.

Math – Module 3 Lesson 17, 18, 19 Topic C quiz and Lesson 20 on Thursday, Lesson 21 on Friday. Here is the Study Guide for the Topic C quiz. Answers

Science – Environments and survival

Social Studies – 5 Themes of Geography

i-Ready – Please practice i-Ready everyday at home to prepare for the upcoming assessment. I will be sending the dates soon.

Welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed your holiday break. I enjoyed relaxing and spending time with my family. Both my daughters were able to visit for Christmas!

Star of the Week – Adam starting Monday 1/6 Here is the link to the Star of the Week information. His week will continue to the next week since we don’t have a full week and Latifeh will begin on 1/21.

1/2 day Reminder –

i-Ready – Congratulation! We had lots more children who worked on i-Ready this week! Amira, Anesa, Elena, Lily, Latifeh, Lena, Ali R, Mia, Hamza and Celia will all get prizes on Monday. They are doing a great job of preparing for the upcoming i-Ready assessment. I will let you know the dates of the test soon.

ELA- We will begin Unit 5 in Benchmark call Advancements in Technology. Here is the Spelling words and grammar pamphlet. Unit 5 Week 1 – Spelling – Vowel Consonant E Syllables, Grammar – Coordinating Conjunctions Spelling practice

Math We will continue Module 3 Topic B Multiplication and Division Concepts with an Emphasis on the Unit of 7. Lessons 13, 14, 15, 16. There will be not math homework on Monday since it is a 1/2 day.

Social Studies –Geography – Map Skills

Science – Environments and Survival

On Friday we will have an all school sing along! We unfortunately do not have enough room to invite parents to this so we will be live streaming some parts of it on our schools Instagram page! You must be a follower of @howemontessoriandsped to see us go live and watch the video! We will stream a couple parts throughout the hour sing along. Reminder that this is not a concert …. this is simply a fun sing along to end our week and get us excited for holiday break. Special thanks to Mrs. Reed for planning and preparing the students.

Remember to send your child in holiday pjs on Friday so we can all match at the sing along.

VERY IMPORTANT—- The first day back in January- Monday the 6th is a HALF DAY with 11:30 am dismissal! Please make note of this!

Star of the Week is Layana this week

Monday last day to turn in completed candy grams.

Winter Party – We will be having a winter party on 12/20. We will be decorating winter cookies. It would be great if the cookies were a winter shape like snowman, snowflake or snowball (no holiday shapes please). The student were hoping for hot chocolate from some place like Tim Horton’s. Here is a list of the supplies the students decided on in our class meeting. Students would like to have popcorn to eat while we watch a winter movie. If anyone would like to share a winter movie with the class it should be rated G. We want a movie about winter NOT a holiday movie so that everyone can participate.

ELA – We will be doing a reading log this week. However, we will not be beginning our next Benchmark Unit until after break. No new spelling, Grammar and Spelling pamphlet and no new Benchmark magazine this week.

Math – Lesson 10, 11, 12 Topic B quiz on Thursday. Here is the study guide if you would like to practice at home.

Social Studies – Map Skills week 8 – study online for quiz on Tuesday.

https://firstbell.dearbornschools.org/2024/12/09/good-attendance-improves-academic-outcomes

Star of the Week – Zaine K starting December 9 Here is the link to the Star of the Week information.

Math – Monday – Lesson 6 , Tuesday District Common Math Assessment Wednesday – Lesson 7 Thursday – Lesson 8, Friday – Lesson 9.

ELA – Unit 4 Week 2 – Spelling – Consonant -le, Grammar Comparative and Superlative Nouns U4W2 spelling We are continuing with our unit on Comparing Points of View

Social Studies –Geography – Map Skills

Science – Environments and Survival

Next week 12/16-20 is Spirit Week – see last week’s post

This week Candy Grams are due

3rd Grade winners – Hamza 1st place, Hadi 2nd place

4th Grade winners – Coy 1st place, Sullivan 2nd place

5th Grade winners – Julia 1st place, Hamza 2nd place

Our 1st place winners will go on the the District Spelling Bee on February 26th to compete against the other Dearborn Students at their grade level.

Pictured with Ms. Alcodray – Principal and Mrs. Keebler – Spelling Bee Coordinator

Picture retake day has been changed to Wednesday 12/4. Please send in the old pictures with a note about what you want changed.